Poland-South Africa-Saudi in the 70's

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS OLD TIME LORRIES, COMPANIES AND DRIVERS (INTERACT
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kindle530:
The bloke said his company was called PK Transport by the way.

Jelliot:
On a serious note

What are you saying Jellitot?!!■■! :laughing: :wink:

PK ? was that Proper Kosher Transport . :laughing: :laughing:

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Well it’s all bloody true Karl about what laddo told ya cos i was on me way back when i bumped into him on his way down!!!

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I didn’t do any M/E work and only a couple on the continent but i did meet a driver who told me he met a driver who knew a driver who knew this bloke who had a mate who knew a driver that drive all the way to Africa, but now i have my doubts if it’s true or not. :open_mouth:

Charles

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Class replies!! PMSL :smiley:

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I can understand how a day spent doing a local multi drop run in London with an artic might have ‘seemed’ like having done all that when you’ve finished for the day. :smiling_imp: :laughing: :laughing:

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Carryfast:
I can understand how a day spent doing a local multi drop run in London with an artic might have ‘seemed’ like having done all that when you’ve finished for the day. :smiling_imp: :laughing: :laughing:

One my favourite bull-■■■■■■■■ was a bloke I heard in the pub telling his pals he could reverse an artic into the crack of a man’s arse if he bent over long enough! And I knew he’d never driven a truck in his life! Incidentally, there was a UK firm that ran down to Nigeria with Volvo F88s or 89s - can’t remember their name yet. Robert :slight_smile:

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robert1952:
…Incidentally, there was a UK firm that ran down to Nigeria with Volvo F88s or 89s - can’t remember their name yet. Robert :slight_smile:

Hello Robert, I think the company you are thinking of was Wake Brothers of Hull. Their name has popped up on various threads on this forum regarding running to Nigeria in the 70s or 80s. Could well be wrong, someone will be along shortly to clarify :laughing: :wink:

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kindle530:
:smiley: :open_mouth: :open_mouth: :open_mouth: Well a boring day got interesting today, funny as hell, you’ve all heard of Billy Bullshyte, well i met him!!
I got talked at by a bloke today in Felixstowe, he was telling me that he used to be an owner driver in the 70’s, his first motor was a V10 Maggi Deutz with a big tank up the back of the cab, 2 big tanks, a saddle (as he called it) over the chassis, 4000litres all in, as sometimes he would go weeks without being able to buy any diesel. I said you mustve gone abroad then, i allways fancied that,
This,is the story he told me with a straight face …
Take a trailer out to Poland for loading(3 bar heaters), bounce back to UK to pick up his other trailer, have a day or 2 in his neighbours wifes flat near where he was loading (she was Polish and didnt sell her flat when she moved to UK and got married)
Then, as one of the trailers had a 5th wheel on the back, he would hook the trailers up together (similar-is to Aussie or Swedish Btrain) and drive down to Spain without ever getting stopped (he was also running at 60tons) and get a ferry over to Morrocco (sometimes Tunisia) and (i wrote these down when i got back in my lorry so i wouldnt forget) in no particular order these were his deliveries
Algeria
Nigeria(regular)
Gahna
Cameroon
Uganda
Kenya
Zambia
Botswana
Mozambique (regular) where he would wear steel toe capped boots whilst doing customs, ‘because when the coppers walked past him they would smack their rifle butts on his toes, when they saw he had steelys on they smiled and said clever Eenglishman’ the roads were non existant, i said you mustve been like that Australian bloke on Outback Truckers, he said yeah i saw that, he had it easy.
Zimbabwe
South Africa, he once had a week off in Cape Town, and after coming out of a restaurant bumped into his next door neighbour and his Polish wife
Yemen
UAE
Saudi
Iraq
Afghanistan
Pakistan
Punjab in India
after all that, he would come home via Spain.
Once, when he got home he got a call from DVLA saying his license had been revoked as he spent too long out of the country, so he went to his local VOSA depot, spoke to his mate there, he said to come back in 2 days, he went back, did an emergency stop in the yard, and his mate passed him there and then.

The bloke believed every word he said, when i left i thought, bugger, i shouldve recorded it on my phone and then i couldve put a link up on here for it.
Ive heard a few bullshyte stories in my time, but this took the biscuit!!

Well on second thoughts I think we should give him the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps he was pulling as a subbie for the very large Turkish transport fleet UZUN ARAC… :wink: :wink: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

Jeff…